1668 in art

Events from the year 1668 in art.

Events

 * The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren with ceiling paintings by Robert Streater.

Works

 * Viviano Codazzi and Filippo Lauri – The Bernini Arsenal at Civitavecchia
 * Jan de Bray – The artist and his wife as Ulysses and Penelope
 * Jean Baptiste Dieussart – lead statues Amor Dei and Amor Patriae, Riddarhuset, Stockholm
 * Gerard de Lairesse – Allegory of the Five Senses
 * Charles Le Brun
 * La Colère
 * Equestrian portrait of Louis XIV
 * Adriaen van de Velde – Frozen Canal with Skaters and Hockey Players
 * Jan Vermeer
 * The Astronomer
 * The Art of Painting (probably completed at or by this date)

Births

 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Battista Cassana, Italian painter of fruit, flowers, and still-life (died 1738)
 * Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, French engraver (died 1741)
 * Yun Du-seo, Korean painter and scholar of the Joseon period (died 1715)
 * Jan Griffier II, English painter (died 1750)
 * Clemente Ruta, Italian painter specializing in landscapes with pen and watercolor (died 1767)
 * Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (died 1763)
 * Alessandro Specchi, Italian architect and engraver (died 1729)
 * Carlo Antonio Tavella, Italian painter of landscapes (died 1738)
 * Giuseppe Tonelli, Italian painter of frescoes and quadratura (died 1732)
 * Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter (died 1746)
 * Domenico Maria Viani, Italian painter of churches, born in Bologna (died 1711)
 * Peter Schubart von Ehrenberg, painter and stage designer active in Vienna (d. unknown)
 * probable – Giacomo Antonio Arland, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1743)

Deaths

 * February 8 – Alessandro Tiarini, Italian Baroque painter of frescoes, façade decorations, and altarpieces (born 1557)
 * April 21 – Jan Boeckhorst, German-born Flemish Baroque painter (born 1604)
 * May 19 – Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter (born 1619)
 * August 23 – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (born 1609)
 * September – Jan Miense Molenaer, Dutch genre painter (born 1610)
 * September 4 - Titus van Rijn, son and model of Rembrandt (born 1641)
 * date unknown
 * Benito Manuel Agüero, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (born 1624)
 * Giulio Benso, Genovese painter of the early Baroque (born 1592)
 * Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque (born 1611)
 * Philips de Marlier, Flemish Baroque painter and copyist (born 1600)
 * Jan Goedart, Dutch painter famous for his illustrations of insects (born 1620)
 * Antonio Travi, deaf Italian landscape painter (born 1613)